On 5/11/12 1:10 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:05:58 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
and the solution indeed was NOT something I would've found by myself
without spending hours on it.
Just a note: I believe I *had* seen SortedRange in the docs, but I'd
never realized there's something called assumeSorted() that I was
supposed to call... so I was searching up and down for how to search an
*arbitrary* container, not how to search something which was already
pre-sorted for me.
(In retrospect, I probably should've just coded binary search myself...)
It's very counterintuitive to have to make a new object (or struct) just
to do binary search on an array...
At the same time it clarifies, documents, and statistically verifies
that you pass a sorted range. Also, D's binary search works with
non-array ranges, but C#'s works only with arrays (which it assumes
sorted only by convention).
I think we copiously made the right call there.
Andrei
